A. C. F. Bookens

She thought she was just going to reminisce, enjoy the Northern Lights, and celebrate an author, but a murderer had other ideas. On her first trip to Iceland, Poe Baxter is excited about the scenery, the culture and the rare book she's hoping to find. But it soon becomes clear that Poe and her best friend Beattie are in for far more than a quiet, book-buying trip to the country. Will they survive their new bookish escapade? When a case of nostalgia...

It's not every day you get to sit on pristine blue water holding a beautiful, first edition Nadine Gordimer novel, and wondering if you'll survive the day. Poe Baxter has always wanted to go to Capetown, and when she hears that a rare book by a famous South African novelist has come on the market, she takes the opportunity to fly to the city. But as soon as she and her best friend Beattie begin researching the whereabouts of this supposed literary...

Old Douglas Fir timbers bring good money, but maybe not as much as keeping quiet about the story of a murder. Paisley Sutton hates to see an old barn falling down, so when she has a chance to take in a crew of friends to salvage timbers, she goes in with gusto. But when they find the bones from a decades-old murder, Paisley begins to wonder if maybe some things should just be let go to ruins. Maybe some secrets need to stay buried. If Paisley decides...

A three-hundred-year-old house should be full of metaphorical skeletons, not real ones. But when Paisley Sutton is invited in to salvage the valuables from the attic of an old plantation house, she finds more than she expected amongst the Christmas decorations and trunks of old letters. As she begins to research, she discovers the story of this house has ties to almost everyone she knows, including her own family. Can Paisley be brave enough to face...